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Kai Frohberg — 90 Patents

Globalfoundries: 47 patents #46 of 4,424Top 2%
AMD: 43 patents #186 of 9,280Top 3%
Meißen, DE: #1 of 42 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #17,911 of 4,157,543Top 1%
90 Patents All Time
Kai Frohberg has been granted 90 US patents while listed as an inventor at Globalfoundries. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in September 2017. Kai Frohberg ranks #17,911 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.43%). Patent records list Kai Frohberg in Meißen, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 17 patents in 2013.peak 172007: 2 patents20072008: 7 patents2009: 10 patents20092010: 9 patents2011: 15 patents20112012: 9 patents2013: 17 patents20132014: 12 patents2015: 5 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 2 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 90 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9761689 Method of forming a semiconductor device and according semiconductor device Dominic Thurmer, Hans-Juergen Thees, Peter Moll, Heike Scholz 2017-09-12 $7,865,000
9590056 Semiconductor device comprising contact structures with protection layers formed on sidewalls of contact etch stop layers Marco Lepper, Katrin Reiche 2017-03-07 $9,679,000
9269809 Methods for forming protection layers on sidewalls of contact etch stop layers Marco Lepper, Katrin Reiche 2016-02-23 $655,000
9245860 Metallization system of a semiconductor device including metal pillars having a reduced diameter at the bottom Frank Feustel, Thomas Werner 2016-01-26 $652,000
9196684 Tensile nitride profile shaper etch to provide void free gapfill Peter Moll, Dominik Olligs, Heike Scholz 2015-11-24 $992,000
9159661 Integrated circuits with close electrical contacts and methods for fabricating the same Peter Moll, Heike Scholz 2015-10-13 $929,000
9153684 Semiconductor fuses in a semiconductor device comprising metal gates Jens Heinrich, Ralf Richter 2015-10-06 $1,521,000
9006114 Method for selectively removing a spacer in a dual stress liner approach Volker Grimm, Heike Salz, Heike Berthold 2015-04-14 $1,171,000
8941182 Buried sublevel metallizations for improved transistor density Dominik Olligs, Jens Heinrich, Katrin Reiche 2015-01-27 $1,455,000
8883582 High-K gate electrode structure formed after transistor fabrication by using a spacer Uwe Griebenow, Katrin Reiche, Heike Berthold 2014-11-11 $1,428,000
8877597 Embedding metal silicide contact regions reliably into highly doped drain and source regions by a stop implantation Jens Heinrich, Frank Feustel 2014-11-04 $1,195,000
8859418 Methods of forming conductive structures using a dual metal hard mask technique Torsten Huisinga, Jens Hahn 2014-10-14 $1,406,000
8859398 Enhancing adhesion of interlayer dielectric materials of semiconductor devices by suppressing silicide formation at the substrate edge Tobias Letz, Frank Feustel 2014-10-14 $1,406,000
8835303 Metallization system of a semiconductor device comprising extra-tapered transition vias Frank Feustel, Thomas Werner 2014-09-16 $1,458,000
8828887 Restricted stress regions formed in the contact level of a semiconductor device Frank Feustel, Thomas Werner 2014-09-09 $2,134,000
8786088 Semiconductor device including ultra low-K (ULK) metallization stacks with reduced chip-package interaction Torsten Huisinga, Jens Heinrich, Frank Feustel 2014-07-22 $2,511,000
8772178 Technique for forming a dielectric interlayer above a structure including closely spaced lines Hartmut Ruelke, Christof Streck 2014-07-08 $2,496,000
8735237 Method for increasing penetration depth of drain and source implantation species for a given gate height Uwe Griebenow, Frank Feustel, Thomas Werner 2014-05-27 $1,638,000
8722511 Reduced topography in isolation regions of a semiconductor device by applying a deposition/etch sequence prior to forming the interlayer dielectric Ralf Richter, Peter Javorka 2014-05-13 $1,755,000
8673696 SOI semiconductor device comprising a substrate diode with reduced metal silicide leakage Peter Baars, Frank Jakubowski, Jens Heinrich, Marco Lepper, Jana Schlott 2014-03-18 $1,595,000
8658494 Dual contact metallization including electroless plating in a semiconductor device Juergen Boemmels, Matthias Schaller, Sven Mueller 2014-02-25 $3,030,000
8615145 Semiconductor device comprising a buried waveguide for device internal optical communication Uwe Griebenow, Jan Hoentschel 2013-12-24 $5,340,000
8609524 Method for making semiconductor device comprising replacement gate electrode structures with an enhanced diffusion barrier Frank Feustal, Thomas Werner 2013-12-17 $1,491,000
8580684 Contact elements of semiconductor devices comprising a continuous transition to metal lines of a metallization layer Robert Seidel, Carsten Peters 2013-11-12 $1,972,000
8536052 Semiconductor device comprising contact elements with silicided sidewall regions Jens Heinrich, Katrin Reiche 2013-09-17 $3,416,000